Plasma Vault, Application for Encrypting Certain Folders from KDE Developer
In this digital era with the rapid spread of information, keeping privacy is the important thing. This includes keeping your personal files or data on your computer or mobile device smartphone. How have you been doing so far?
On the Linux operating system, one way that you can do to protect your data or files is to do the following: encryption on the Home folder.
If you are a Linux operating system user who uses the KDE desktop environment, you can be relieved that KDE has created an application that helps maintain your files and documents called Plasma Vault.
Plasma Vault is an app open source created by KDE developers for the environment desktop KDE, which will be attending online stable on KDE Plasma 5.11 which will be released in mid-October.
Plasma Vault allows you to encrypt certain folders that you want to lock to secure your files from unwanted parties.
If you’ve done it before encryption in the Home directory on your Linux, it doesn’t mean you no longer need to use Plasma Vault, because the way Plasma Vault secures files or data is different from the way Plasma Vault secures files or data. encryption normally in the Home folder.
Encryption the regular Home directory doesn’t do encryption on your files or data while you’re login with a users.
So that when someone borrows your computer, then you lend it in a state that the computer is ready login with user After that, they will still be able to access your files or data.
Meanwhile, by using Plasma Vault, you can do encryption specifically on each specific folder that you consider important and should not be seen by others without permission.
Even though you lend your computer in a moderate state login with user they will still be unable to access the folder you locked with Plasma Vault without the password you used.
Plasma Vault fills the void of encryption Home folder in general. So it will be very good if you use Plasma Vault to do encryption on a certain folder and you keep doing encryption Home directory in general.
That way you have double security.
Plasma Vault will be available online native on Linux distributions that use the KDE Plasma 5.11 desktop environment later, so you can use it right away without the need to do the installation yourself.
